Editor’s Note

Yo. New Hampshire. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and temperate.

Our Best of NH deadline falls just as summer wishes take shape. This year, for my family, there's also a wedding.

Summer is about expanding horizons, but it’s also a chance to look at some familiar things in a new way.

“We enhance stockholder value through strategic business initiatives by empowered employees working in new team paradigms.”

To keep a reader engaged, the most colorful language pales next to a simple situation that compels the mind to wonder, “What’s next?”

Comedian Louis C.K. has a famous routine where he mocks those who agonize over what to do with their lives. He demonstrates his answer by pointing to his mouth and saying, “Just put food in here.”

Family pets are more than just furry, drooling, hair-shedding, furniture-scratching consumers of costly veterinary services.

Who doesn’t want to give the future a piece of their mind?

Here in the season of giving, it’s a good time to consider a certain set of gifts — the kind we never wanted and would have said “No, thanks,” if anyone had asked.

Does anyone besides me remember the “Edmund Scientific Catalog?” Its arrival in the mail was like a secular Christmas.